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Shadowgraphy (or Ombromanie) is the art of using hands to form figures onto a screen using shadows. Its origins go back to 850 AD in Indonesia and (618-907) in China during the Tang Dynasty. It was made popular by Félicien Trewey (1848-1920), a French entertainer who travelled in Europe and America giving shows at music halls. He was billed as ‘Mons. Trewey, the Fantasiste, Humoristique, in his Shadowgraph Entertainment’.

Once again the topical subject of the life extension science is upon us. A new documentary film by Mark S. Wexler’s opens on 6/3/11 here in LA.

The baby boomers, which I am one of, are shitting in their pants with fear about dying.
They started with cosmetic surgery to hide the signs of their mortality, now years later with the pending doom pounding louder on their door, Kurzweil has entered the picture with 2045. Transcendent Man a documentary about Kurzweil by director Barry Ptolemy is still ranking #2 on iTunes.

Ram Dass states in the documentary Ram Dass Fierce Grace that at this stage of his life he is here to help the baby boomers deal with aging, infirmity, and disability by pointing the way to a higher understanding of these mysteries. I hope that he talks louder.

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The HELMINTH treatment

Maybe we have gotten ourselves too clean and this has given rise to a vast increase in autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s disease, MS, and asthma and allergies. Should we reconsider using antibacteria hand-wipes as often as we do? Soap and water in many instances will do.

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Joel Weinstock had a perfectly good career as a parasitologist in the early 1990s when he and Elliott, then colleagues at the University of Iowa, noticed the lack of autoimmune diseases in the tropics. They knew about the hygiene hypothesis, which suggests that early exposure to germs is crucial for normal immune function later on. And the two knew about the rise of autoimmunity in the West. “We asked, ‘What’s missing in developed countries?’” Elliott says. “We still had viruses and bacteria, but we were missing a whole class—helminths—which used to be universal.” Lab work and tests in animals soon convinced Elliott and Weinstock that helminth infection could quell inflammation. By 2000 they were speculating openly that failure to get parasitic infections might contribute to inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

A fun 1920 film by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation to educate the Southern rural communities in the US about the hookworm and public health issues. It was such a success that it was translated into 3 languages and distributed to 18 countries.